Summer Institute
Join a group of women higher-ed leaders who are leaning even more into strategic leadership, building out repeatable ways to get buy-in with greater ease, developing systems & prioritization skills so we can have greater impact, and crafting connections and collaborations across the university system.
Opening Workshop – Mid/Late May
Intensive – June/July
Capstone Seminar – August
This program is designed for women mid-level and senior-level higher ed leaders who want to stop the overwhelm of spending all of their time in back-to-back meetings and putting out fires and instead focusing on becoming more proactive and strategic in their leadership. If you are ready to reclaim your time and make a greater and more tangible impact for yourself and your institution, this program will walk you through with a proven framework that will equip you to be a strategic leader at this critical moment in higher education.
Pillar I: Design
Design your role for strategic alignment. Often, our ill-defined and ever-expanding roles impede us from being a strategic leader. You will learn how to gain greater role clarity and coherence by re-designing your role for greater impact, building the advocacy skills, and practicing the 3 key conversations you need to have with your boss, peers, and team for greater role clarity and strategic alignment.
Pillar III: Systematize
Design your Strategic Leadership OS. Learn how to build your strategic leadership skills and prioritize your most impactful work and implement your leadership legacy project by designing your strategic leadership operating system. You will receive a leadership dashboard with prioritization, time and task management and capacity planning templates and learn tips and techniques on how you can customize it to your unique role.
Pillar II: Prioritize
Learn how to set and manage better boundaries and priorities and practice the advocacy skills you need to support these boundaries and priorities when challenges arise so you can continue to focus on your most strategic work.
Pillar IV: Institutionalize
Launch your impact project/leadership legacy project. Learn what a leadership legacy project is and why you need one. We will outline your project and identify the advocacy skills you need to create and implement a project that will make a clear and tangible impact at your institution and beyond.
Opening Workshop
We all say we need to be more strategic, but what does that actually mean, specifically for women in higher ed?
We will demystify and unpack what “strategic leadership” means and the unique challenges that women higher ed leaders face. You will set a baseline by taking the Higher Education Strategic Leadership Assessment, learn and practice evidence-based habits from our Higher Education Leadership Playbook, and design an action plan specifically designed for women higher ed leaders that you can immediately put into practice.
The Path to Higher Ed Strategic Leadership
Learn about an evidence-based framework that has specifically equipped women higher ed leaders to lead with greater impact and ease
The Higher Ed Strategic Leadership Assessment
Identify and assess the core competencies you need for strategic leadership at this particular moment in higher ed
Higher Ed Strategic Leadership Action Plan
Design an action plan with tiny habits and clear steps you can immediately put into practice
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Jennifer Scott Mobley, Ph.D.
Ph.D., Communication, Ohio University
Certified Executive Coach, Center for Executive Coaching Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach
I am an executive coach that helps higher education leaders cultivate the mindset and skill set needed to thrive in an ever-changing world so they can lead with greater purpose and ease.
Informed by 15+ years of progressive experience as a higher education leader, I work with chairs and deans to vice presidents and provosts as they navigate change in higher education and the next step in their careers.
I have worked with numerous clients in education and business including New York University, University of Chicago, University of Tennessee, Furman University, Case Western Reserve University, Colby College, Commonwealth University, Microsoft, and GE Aviation.
I would love to work together with you.
Jennifer blends extensive higher education leadership experience and coaching expertise to help leaders answer the question, "Where do I go from here?" Our sessions sparked lively dialogue that helped me better articulate career goals. She then offered both practical tools and strategies for how I could best accomplish them. Perhaps her greatest strengths are the deep listening skills that she brings to her sessions. She identified issues and strategies that I would not have found on my own. From our interaction I have a better-developed action plan.
– Thomas King, Chair & Professor, Department of Accountancy, Case Western Reserve University
From our first encounter, Jennifer had a warmth that helped me to immediately connect with her. Though I was experiencing a family health challenge, I still managed to have a very productive and emotionally rewarding year and I think a great part of that was due to Jennifer. She helps me to think differently about a variety of professional issues from how I plan my time to what matters most to me. She has become a trusted confidant who has guided me in reflecting on and helped me to make realizations about challenges I face and how best to address them. Not only does Jennifer have great institutional knowledge of how universities work, but she is an expert in many fields of personal and professional development. I give Jennifer Mobley my highest recommendation. She is an expert coach and a great listener who will help you to understand how to achieve your greatest potential. She will become your biggest champion.
– Angélica Lozano-Alonso, Professor & Faculty Director, Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Furman University